The sound engineers on 'Horses', old friends and more, recall the making of Patti Smith's debut album and define its power, ...

Today in Music History for Nov. 17: ...

Patti Smith talks about 'Bread of Angels,' her latest book. Smith wrote the book over a 10-year period, chronicling her ...

At the Chicago Theatre, Patti Smith and her band tore into “Horses” from top to bottom, and 50 years on, it’s still ...

“Just Kids” is a memoir of Smith’s early years in New York and her relationship with the artist Robert Mapplethorpe. They ...

The indomitable punk poet — who was born in Chicago and briefly lived in Logan Square when she was young — dedicated “People ...

“Jesus died for somebody’s sins but not mine,” Smith sang on Saturday over the slow piano chords of keyboardist Tony Shanahan ...

Patti Smith has reaped many honors in her life. She’s been inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, won a National Book ...

What a magnificent night of live music, centered on the 1975 debut that is regularly — and rightfully — considered to be one ...

The singer-songwriter and poet recounts her childhood in this memoir, the place where “the kingdom of the infinite imagination” first opened beneath her feet.

Released on this day in 1980, Yoko Ono recalls the making of Double Fantasy - what would tragically prove to be John Lennon's ...